I had lunch with a friend yesterday, who also happens to write about technology. He asked me about my process for writing comedy sketches: how to come up with the ideas and get them written? He wants to write more articles for his webzine, but often gets stuck on what to write about. It occurred to […]

I wrote this article for the National Alliance of Secular Homeschoolers blog. View original article. Your suggestion is “write me a blog entry.” Go! It’s 9:30 a.m. on a homeschool day, and I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself. The kids are still asleep, which means I have time to finish this article. And by […]

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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to love this book, I really did. After all, the characters in the story are such wonderful, vivid creatures that, despite their many and varied faults, I empathized and sympathized with greatly. Mitchell has a certain knack for painted greatly flawed […]

In celebration of Memorial Day, here is a repost of an entry from November 11, 2010 Most people who know me realize that, between my Quaker faith and libertarian/anarchist values, I’m vehemently opposed to war (especially our current ones). Sadly, some people take that to also mean that I am opposed to, or hateful towards, […]